One ray of sunshine: when the bubble pops, there will be quite a few "billionaires" who will become mere millionaires, and they will find that their friends in government and the media will suddenly be much less interested in being around them at all.
Edit: This reply belongs somewhere else. apologies!
You handled that whole unhinged situation like a champ.
Seeing once respectable folks get trapped in this bullshit feels like watching my college pal smoke his first clove cigarette.
It seems like, for certain kind of geek, code LLMs sit somewhere between "The One Ring but rubbish" and "mechanical meth." The users certainly feel powerful and productive, and god help anyone who hints otherwise.
This one hurts. Maybe CD can be brought back around but oof.